commonplace

This is a city where neighborhood displacement — whether by gentrification, government or natural disaster — is as commonplace and messy as the bloom of jacarandas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

While cars, auto parts and high-end computer chips are subject to tariffs from the Trump administration, more commonplace semiconductors used in the AI buildout can enter the U.S. largely tariff-free.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

VSCs and safety cars are commonplace in F1 and they always afford drivers and teams the chance to gain or lose depending on the decisions they make when they occur.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Cuts of five hours or more have become commonplace.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

Because we both knew that in Afghanistan, and particu­larly in Kabul, such absurdity was commonplace.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

But it is notable that Mr. Bhattacharya lays no more emphasis on these events than on the commonplaces of Charu’s everyday work life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Eliot’s “fragments I have shored against my ruins,” but came too close, for me, to what Saul Bellow’s fictional Herzog called “the commonplaces of the Wasteland outlook.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2021

His arguments, a distressed John Quincy Adams wrote in his diary, consisted “altogether of the most hackneyed commonplaces of popular declamation, mingled up with panegyrics and invectives.”

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2019

His website proclaims his new book, “shattered the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers.”

From Washington Times ● Mar. 26, 2018

Any form of reasoning has to start from a set of premises, and in rhetoric those premises are very often commonplaces.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith